Problems with "help(topic,offline=T)"

Peter,

first of all thanks for the quick reply! I followed your instructions and
redirected the dvips and latex output to a file. The main problem seems to
be that latex complains about a missing style file ("bm.sty"). I felt my
latex distribution could be out of time and first searched the server of
the german TeX users group for an adequate style. Unfortunately without
success. Is that "bm.sty" shipped with R, or rather should it be?

I searched my R-source tree (0.90.0) and only found "Rd.sty" (and "S.sty" 
in the libraries).

Fault of mine during compilation/installation?

        Uli Flenker
        Institute of Biochemistry
        German Sports University Cologne
        Carl-Diem-Weg 6

        50933 Cologne / Germany

        Phone 0049/0221/4982-493

Works for me...

The last few lines of the help ($RHOME/bin/help) script say

    ${LATEX} "\\nonstopmode\\input{${1}}" >/dev/null 2>&1
    ${DVIPS} ${1} 2>/dev/null
    if test -f ${1}.ps;
    then
        echo "Saving help page to \`${2}.ps'"
        mv ${1}.ps ${ODIR}/${2}.ps
    fi
    rm -f ${1}.aux ${1}.dvi ${1}.log

So if you're not seeing the "Saving help page to \`${2}.ps'" bit,
chances are that ${DVIPS} sends directly to the printer, or tries to. 

The other option is that ${LATEX} or  ${DVIPS} is failing fatally, for
some reason that you won't see because of the redirections.
Temporarily replacing /dev/null with a real file might reveal the
source of the mystery.

It's not a mystery that the .dvi files are cleaned up, cf the last
line above.

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